Transcript Appendix 17

Example: How to calculate nutrition
information
Step 1: Identify the ingredients in your
recipe and the serving size of your
recipe
• You are making peanut butter cups with
shredded coconut
• The recipe makes 30 peanut butter cups
– 2 cups of milk chocolate chips
– 2 tablespoons of shortening
– ½ cup butter
– ½ cup crunchy peanut butter
– 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
– 1 cup of shredded coconut
Step 2: Calculate the nutrition per
serving of chocolate chips
• For 2 cups of chocolate chips, this bag of
chocolate contains:
– A serving is 1 cup
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210 Calories
8g fat
30 mg cholesterol
27 g carbohydrates
1 g fiber
25 g sugar
9 g protein
Step 3: Calculate the nutrition per
serving of chocolate chips
• To determine the calories for the chocolate
chips in the new peanut butter cup recipe,
multiply the number of calories for one
serving of chocolate by the amount needed in
the recipe:
210 Calories (per cup) x 2 (2 cups needed for the
recipe) = 420 calories for 2 cups of chocolate
chips
Step 4: Repeat this procedure each of
the following nutrients for each
ingredient:
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Calories
Fat
Cholesterol
Carbohydrates
Fiber
Sugar
Protein
Step 5: Determine the final nutrition
information
• To do this, add the total of each nutrient for each
ingredient. For example:
– Total Calories for 2 cups of chocolate chips = 420
– Total Calories for 2 tablespoons shortening = 60
– Total Calories for ½ cup butter = 80
– Total Calories for ½ cup crunchy peanut butter = 200
– Total Calories for 1 cup confectioner’s sugar = 60
– Total Calories for 1 cup of shredded coconut = 170
– 420+60+80+200+60+170 = 990 total Calories
Step 6: Determine the final nutrition
information
• Divide 990 Calories by 30 (the recipe serving
size)
• The total number of Calories per peanut
butter cup is 33 Calories.
Step 7: Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each
nutrient
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Fat
Cholesterol
Carbohydrates
Fiber
Sugar
Protein
**Note that the numbers for everything except the chocolate are simulated and not to be
considered nutritionally accurate.